PAKISTAN
Pakistan’s political pains
Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf resignation concludes an eventful year in Pakistani politics. Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto’s assassination constituted one of its most somber chapters.
Pakistan People’s Party leader and widower of the late Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari, is poised to win presidential election on Sept. 06 in Pakistan.
Zardari is challenged by retired chief justice Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui, backed by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and Mushahid Hussain, a Musharraf aide.
If elected, Zardari will succeed former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who resigned in a televised address on 18th August, after nine years in power.
Facing impeachment by the democratic coalition government, Musharraf said that he was leaving the country in the hands of Allah.
And also in the hands of a fractious coalition government, led by Nawaz Sharif (of the PML-N) and Asif Ali Zardari (of the Pakistan’s People Party), husband of the assassinated ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
The country has faced rising Islamist insurgencies over the last year and its political-military alliance with the
'Mr. 10%' set to become Mr. President
Long known as "Mr. 10%" due to his past corruption scandals, the controversial Pakistan People’s Party leader and widower of the late Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari, is poised to win this weekend’s presidential election in Pakistan.
Pakistan's Musharraf steps down
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation in a televised address to the nation in the face of an impending impeachment motion by the ruling coalition government.
A sinister spy story
Pakistan's secretive ISI is one of the world's best-known, little-known spy agencies. But can it control the Frankenstein monsters it has nurtured?
Long live Bhutto!
Benazir Bhutto is dead. Should her son shoulder the responsibility of heading the Pakistan People's Party? (Report: H. Frade, P. Barber)
Pour aller plus loin
- 06/10/2007 : A sinister spy story
- 06/10/2007 : Life in restive Peshawar
- 25/03/2008 : Gilani sworn in as Pakistan PM
- 21/02/2008 : Pakistani bloggers call on Musharraf to step down
- 21/02/2008 : Main opposition parties to form coalition
- 21/02/2008 : Opposition meets amid anti-Musharraf protests
- 15/02/2008 : Vote rigging fears mar hope for change
- 18/02/2008 : Pakistanis vote amid rigging fears
- 16/02/2008 : Pakistan wraps up vote campaign
- 13/02/2008 : Militants 'gave gun and suicide vest' to Bhutto killer
- 08/02/2008 : Bomb, not bullets, killed Bhutto
- 07/02/2008 : Pakistani officials make arrests in Bhutto case
- 18/01/2008 : Long live Bhutto!
- 27/12/2007 : World leaders condemn Bhutto killing
- 15/12/2007 : Musharraf ends emergency rule
- 04/10/2007 : Musharraf, Bhutto sign power-share deal
- 13/12/2007 : Bhutto, Sharif target Musharraf
- 04/10/2007 : Is Musharraf in the hot seat?
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REPORT: Islamists in Pakistan
18/02/08 Islamists in Pakistan (C. Simon et T. Ellis)
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ANALYSIS - PAKISTAN ELECTION
18/02: What's at stake?
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PAKISTAN - REPORT
17/02: Violence mars election rallies
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F24 DEBATE
Bhutto's death: Chaos in Pakistan
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F24 INTERVIEW
13/11/07: Former PM Benazir Bhutto spoke to F24 days before her assasiantion
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F24 INTERVIEW
12/11: Former PM Nawaz Sharif speaks to F24
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Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto at a rally, just moments before her assassination.
